A Weekly Centering Prayer for These Turbulent Times — When Hatred and Gun Violence Collide #LetUsPray let us pray — god of every hue and every human, gun violence, fueled by hate, is not your will. the depth of our sorrow cannot be measured as groans of grief vibrate in our bones and the needless loss of life surpasses understanding but what can we expect when we live in a culture that justifies hatred because of who one worships because of who one loves because of where one was born because of what one looks like because of what one does because of one’s passions because of one’s politics because of how one simply moves through the world . . . and, god, often this hatred is sown in your holy name. and what can we expect when guns are so deeply embedded in our culture when guns are gamified without discretion when guns are glorified as tools of power when our response to gun violence is more guns when gun profit has more power than human potential when guns are too easy to g...